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The Opencast community is a collaboration of individuals, higher education institutions and organizations working together to explore, develop, define and document best practices and technologies for management of audiovisual content in academia.

Opencast is an open source lecture capture and video management system which allows institutions to capture, process, manage and distribute video assets on a large scale. It plays with relevant academic systems and services and provides flexibility to meet the diversity of video management requirements we see today.

Schedule
Schedule events to automatically record based on a pre-defined timetable and, capture both video of the presenter and the PC screen.

News

The annual Opencast conference will be hosted from February 14 to February 16, 2018 at the University of Vienna. The meeting will allow participants from the Opencast community to present their current activities related to Opencast and academic video management in general.

I am pleased to announce that the voting for our next Opencast release
managers is done and that by unanimous vote among the committers,
Sven Stauber and Christian Greweling have been accepted as new
release managers.

A detailed release schedule for 4.0 will be announced soon on the
developers list but the aim should be to have the feature freeze around
October 1st and the final release around mid December.

Opencast 3.0 has been streamlined to better address Adopters’ needs when it comes to their processes. This means the user experience and the efficiency of users performing their tasks have been significantly enhanced. Other major improvements are new features for the Opencast Player and even more flexibility when it comes to the integration of Opencast into external authentication and authorization systems.